- Buying a laptop advice
- Posted by Mike P on August 20th, 2003
Hi,
I'm looking for a laptop around £1000, while I'd love to buy an IBM TP X31
once you add on the dvd and docking station it's a bit too expensive. It
needs a DVD and as lightweight as possible, as I travel a lot.
Any advice appreciated
M.
- Posted by John H on August 21st, 2003
I got an Averatec 3150p for the wife. Decent laptop for under $1000. I
only have two issues with it after a month of owning it:
1) The keyboard is way to small for me. Wife says she's getting used to it
though.
2) The left palm rest gets pretty warm.
Other than that, it's very small, 4.5lbs, has dvd/cdrw combo, integrated
wireless, 30g hd, 256mb of ram and XP Pro installed.
www.averatec.com
J
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- Posted by Salvador Freemanson on August 21st, 2003
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:47:41 +0100, "Mike P"
<bikerladnospam@spamcop.net> wrote:
My advice would be to check the price of a replacement battery before
choosing a model.
Battery life in laptops is notoriously poor, and batteries are
specific to each laptop. Variation in prices of batteries is more than
three to one according to the model.
- Posted by Bronco Bill on August 21st, 2003
buy a tosh
with toshiba you were paying for the name but they are very agressively
priced now in my view and not much more than lesser brands or no-name even
great resale value , image and high quality
sonys are for for posers
but get memory upgrades etc from crucual not toshiba
toshiba charge silly money for parts and upgrades
they wanted 100 pounds for a k/b for my portege until i mentioned i was a
journo at which point the price dropped to er zero
good deal on technomatic and dabs now - a toshiba satellite pro high spec
for 525 inc vat - a bargain - i might get one myself even though i already
have two laptops - the toshiba portege and a compaq presario
ian
